A young woman with red-blond hair wears a yellow suit trimmed in black with a tucked, lace trimmed pink blouse. This transitional outfit combines the flowers and lace popular in the Victorian era with the angularity of approaching modernist styles....
A family of four in their fashions for Philadelphia in 1837. The father wears gray trousers and a green frock coat fastened across the chest with military-style frogs and braiding. The coat has high lapels over a white ruffled collar, and black...
A woman and a child stand with a young girl who seems to be dressed for her confirmation. The woman on the left wears a long full skirted skirt and jacket of blue satin. The skirt has six horizontal bands of ruched panels. More ruched bands edge...
Woman wears a white court dress with short sleeves and an empire waist. The low neck is trimmed with three tiers of white lace that go over the shoulders and sleeves. The sleeves are puffed and edged with an additional two tiers of lace. There is a...
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Parasols; Veils; Flowers; Earrings; Buttons; Gloves; Pleats (Sewing); Binoculars
Two women are depicted at a harbor, looking at the ships in the distance. The woman on the left wears a flat brimmed straw hat decorated with with white veiling, a standing plume, and green leaves. Her dress has a black skirt with pleats and...
Berries; Bodices; Clothing and dress; Color in clothing; Dresses; Fans; Feathers; Flowers; Foundation garments; Gloves; Lace and lace making; Leaves; Women's clothing; Women's hats; Women's shoes;
A woman in an evening dress from 1835. The woman wears a pale pink dress with an off-the-shoulder, wide lace collar. The dress has short puffed sleeves and a fitted bodice. There are clusters of green grapes along the collar, the front of the...
The woman on the left wears a green dress with long, full sleeves, a white lace collar and cuffs, and full skirts hemmed with two deep flounces. Over her dress the woman wears a pale, peach-colored capote (a hooded cape or shawl) edged with a band...
Women's clothing; Plaid; Women's hats; Parasols; Lace and lace making
Four women are depicted outdoors in conversation. The dresses of two women are shown in color and two not in color. The first woman wears a white bonnet with green ribbon and bows and pink roses inside the brim. She wears a green checkered dress...
The top row shows the upper halves of three women. The woman on the left wears a yellow dress with long full sleeves, and a short lacy shawl with a ruffle-edged collar and ruffles along the hem. The shawl fastens with a square brooch, and the woman...
Belt buckles; Belts (Clothing); Bodices; Bows (Ribbon work); Brooches; Cameos; Collars; Color in clothing; Cuffs (Clothing); Dresses; Feathers; Flowers; Gloves; Handkerchiefs; Hats; Headgear; Hosiery; Lace and lace making; Leaves; Pleats (Sewing);...
Two women stand in the center, and above them are four hats, and the torso of a third woman. A green, wide-brimmed bonnet with flowers, a pink wide-brimmed bonnet with roses and lace, a small white cap with lappets, pink ribbon, and white flowers,...
The woman on the left wears a soft purple dress with long full sleeves, lacy cuffs, a belt, and two ruffled flounces at the hem. The dress has a pinafore-style shawl collar edged with two ruffles that reach almost to the elbows. The area between...
The top row of figures shows three women. The woman on the left wears a fur-edged purple coat over a long sleeved white dress with a lace collar. Her green bonnet ties under the chin and is trimmed with pink flowers and a long ruffled white plume....
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Bows (Ribbon work); Wedding costume; Veils; Lace and lace making; Mirrors; Stripes; Earrings; Hair ornaments
There are five women, one a bride, in a salon. The woman on the far left wears an ornamented band on her hair, with a short blue lace veil attached. Her dress is blue with a low scooped neckline, over a white high collared blouse with pintucks,...
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Girls' clothing; Shawls; Stripes; Bracelets; Gloves; Veils; Lace and lace making; Flowers; Hats
Two women and a girl are depicted in a parlor. The woman on the left wears her hair up, decorated with beads. Her dress is green and white stripes with a ruched horizontal striped band halfway down the skirt. Her bodice is covered with rows of...
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Lace and lace making; Fans; Bracelets; Flowers
Two women are depicted sitting in a parlor. The woman on the left wears a white lace cap with lappets and a lavender dress. Her dress has a square neckline and long full sleeves. The sleeves are white and gathered into ruffles below her elbows....
Hair ornaments; Lace and lace making; Earrings; Flowers; Feathers
The busts of seven women are depicted to show new Paris fashions for headdresses. Six of the busts are wearing gold pendant earrings of various styles. The top left, labeled 1, shows a woman wearing a white lace cap with lappets, decorated with...
Two women and a man model their Philadelphian fashions for November of 1841. The man, seated in a chair carved with classical volutes, wears long strapped trousers, a white pleated shirt, a white waistcoat, and a black frock coat with notched...
Women's clothing; Girls' clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Flowers; Necklaces; Lace and lace making; Pleats (Sewing); Fans; Ribbons; Women's shoes; Stripes; Parasols; Earrings
Two women and a young girl are at the beach, near a bathing house. The woman on the left wears a small tan hat decorated with red flowers, green leaves and black ribbon. Her dress is gray with long bell sleeves edged in gray pleats and white lace ....
Lace and lace making; Hats; Handkerchiefs; Bows (Ribbon work); Dresses
A woman wears a light green dress with long narrow sleeves, a white bodice, a double row of ruffles at neck and sleeves, and lace edged cuffs. It has buttons down the center front and lappets at the waist, and has a narrow ruffle above the hem....
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Riding habit; Veils; Flowers; Bows (Ribbon work)
Two women stand outside a building. The woman on the left holds the reins of a white horse standing behind her. The horse has pink rosettes decorating its bridle. She is dressed in a deep navy blue riding habit. Her hat is shiny black with a low...
